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Factors that allow critical enquiry to develop:

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Absence of religious explanation.
Uncoupling of belief value/desire-> willing to subject belief to test
Started in classical Greece (social/material conditions)

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Presocratics:

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Thales & ontological issues (the physicists) natural explanations
Universe made of water-> single element-> atomic theory
Pythagoras- reasoning =truth

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Socrates and Plato:

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Socratic method- critical dialogue, rationalism
Self knowledge= ultimate value
Personality= 3 aspects/tripartite (rational, spirite, appetitive

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Aristotle:

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sympathetic to empirical view held by scientists today, naturalistic
•Scientific: in practice and theory of knowledge
•Argued for purpose in nature- each structure has a function